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repository

  1. [ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a database that contains the schema information needed to create a geodatabase from a UML model created using a CASE tool.
  2. [ESRI software] In ArcSDE, a collection of system tables that contain metadata needed to manage ArcSDE data.